One of my favorite things about early Supergrass was their boundless enthusiasm for sloppy, energetic pop songs like “Caught By The Fuzz.” Their ability to rock almost out of control was charming. There is none of that on Road To Rouen, and I initially thought I didn’t like the album. Once I gave […]

Morcheeba have left trip-hop completely behind them (or at least to the side) on The Antidote, which finds the band sharing more stylistic ground with the psychedelia of Jefferson Airplane than with any of their previous work. They’ve found a new love for acoustic arrangements that include mostly live instruments, including horns. To go […]

Modern Skirts peddle a brand of pop that’s uncommon, one that blissfully recalls 70s AM pop, one that acknowledges it’s okay to make music for fun, even if it there’s no deep artistic statement of personal pain or political anger. The vast majority of the songs on Catalogue are heavy on piano and light […]

Nat Baldwin has come up with a concept that hadn’t occurred to me yet. All of the sounds on Lights Out are created either by voices or Nat’s upright double bass. He bows, plucks, taps, and scratches his bass to make all of the musical backing to his Yorke-esque vocals. The results […]

The Hotel Alexis is really a vehicle for singer/songwriter and band founder Sydney Alexis, and The Shining Example Is Lying On The Floor is the band‘s debut and part of the freshman class at new independent label Broken Sparrow Records. The music is quiet, slow, aching, heartbroken, and beautiful. Each song tells a […]

The glory days of Echo and the Bunneymen are long since gone, and anyone that expects them to return is being a bit foolish. Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant are the only remaining original members now, and they’re trying very hard, but the magic is pretty much gone. They’ve given the hired rhythm […]